On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:29:17AM -0800, thus spake Sean 'Shaleh' Perry:
> On 22-Dec-2000 SATO Satoru wrote:
> > Probablly there are not any blackbox v0.61.1 deb/src for potato
> > avalable, I think.
> >
>
> Sato, thanks for the in depth answer before me (-:
>
> In general when looking for sources for a deb, the path is:
>
> <your mirror>/debian/dists/<release>/{main,contrib,non-free}/source.
>
> http://bigfoot.eecs.umich.edu/debian/dists/woody/main/source/x11/
> for example has blackbox 0.61.1.
>
> With the recent pools shakeup, things are a little new. If you do not find a
> directory structure under source, there will be a sources.gz which references
> every package. Just look up the package and it will give you the proper path.
>
Terrific - got it, built it, desktop gorgeous again ;-)
Many thanks
Glyn M
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